![On Sunday, illegal immigrants arrived at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York.](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Illegal-immigrants.jpg)
The situation on the southern border has turned out to be a multi-layered crisis, and the costs have also turned out to be incredibly high.
In the last two years alone, the Biden administration has spent $20 billion of hard-earned American tax dollars resettling “refugees.” Of course, the vast majority of illegal border crossers are not refugees.
It's true that Democrats seem to enjoy spending other people's money.
daily caller Report:
Biden administration spent a whopping $20 billion on refugee resettlement in just two years
The Biden administration has poured billions of taxpayer dollars into the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) since October 2022, according to a new report from Open the Books. .
According to reports, the Biden administration will provide $8.925 billion in fiscal year 2022 and $109 million in fiscal year 2023 to ORR's Office of Children and Families (ACF) to provide various services such as immigrant detention, transportation, medical care and loans. It spent $28 million. The report was released on Tuesday. HHS has come under intense scrutiny in recent months over ORR's alleged mishandling of cases involving unaccompanied migrant children, some of which were not adequately reviewed, according to the New York Times. Some children are reportedly released to sponsors and used for child labor.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says illegal immigration at the southern border is at an all-time high under the Biden administration, with federal authorities reporting more than 2.2 million migrants in 2022 and 2 million in 2023. It is recorded that they encountered the following illegal immigrants. ) Statistics.
According to the NYT, authorities have lost contact with 85,000 unaccompanied migrant children. Meanwhile, the Biden administration spent more than $5.5 billion separately on unaccompanied migrant children in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, according to the Open the Books report.
That $20 billion could have built a border wall, built a ton of housing for veterans, and covered all sorts of other costs.
Rather, Biden wasted it destroying the country.